Arkansas: Pit bull stigma resurfaces after Pit Bulls attack, kill man

ARKANSAS -- "The pit bulls that came under his gate just tore me up," Roger Frazier vividly recalls the vicious dog attack that happened months ago. He continues, "I told him if he didn't do something, they were going to kill somebody and that's what they did."

It was Saturday morning, at CJ's Garage in Pine Bluff, that 36-year-old De'Trick Johnson was mauled to death by a pack of seven pit bull terriers.

  

Upon hearing the news, Arkansans immediately took to social media.

One person writing in part, "Don't blame the dog…blame the owner! He didn't use those dogs as pets. He used them as weapons…"

Another writes, "I'm so sick of people saying don't blame the breed!" Someone else adds, "I'll be glad when these dogs are outlawed."

"And that's very sad. That's very sad," Debbie Howell with the Humane Society of Pulaski County explains. "What we're dealing with is not an animal problem, it's a people problem," she continues.

Howell says it is not necessarily about the breed, but the conditions the dog is placed in.

Howell says, "You can have a very nice typical dog, like a lab or a golden retriever. In the wrong circumstances and with the wrong owner and the wrong treatment, they can also be dangerous."

Seriously? Ms. Howell please stop making ridiculous comments like this. What tired saying are you going to drag out next? That it's the 'deed not the breed'? That pit bulls were nanny dogs way back in the day? There are plenty of stories about pit bulls that were raised in the household by a loving family with children and other small pets and then suddenly the dog 'snapped' and tried to kill them all. I have NEVER heard someone say this about a Golden Retriever, a Collie, a Corgi, a Cavalier...

OWNERS WHO DID NOT ABUSE THEIR DOGS BUT

WERE ATTACKED BY THEM ANYWAY

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woman whose dog mauled her husband to death

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“She thought they were playing back and forth like this,
 then all of a sudden, she saw her on the ground and kept
saying, 'Polo, Polo,' because that was the dog’s name,
 and she was rolling over, so she (the neighbor)
 called 911 and then she didn’t see her no more.”

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The Humane Society sees it quite often, and they are very protective of their pit bulls, like the one named Sugar.

Howell says, "She was actually chained and had a cable around her neck that was ingrown."

Fortunately for Sugar, she was not negatively affected by her circumstances, but that's not the case for all dogs. In light of the recent dog pack attack, dog owners like John Segars can only hope that this case will not bring negative attention to their dogs.

Segars says, "Don't penalize everybody because of the negligence of a few."

A few?? A few???

WHEN YOU DENY THAT YOUR DOG HAS

 INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS WE PAY THE PRICE

Owner of Pit Bull Which Attacked 4 Yr Old: "Dog is Not Aggressive At All"

Restrictions for different types of dogs vary from city to city and county to county. An advocacy group called DogsBite.org maintains a link of the different rules in Arkansas.

(THV 11 - ‎Mar 22, 2015‎)

Earlier:

• Pine Bluff man mauled to death by group of pit bulls, one still at large